Students say they've seen rats in other parts of the school before. One student sent 10 News a picture of a rat they claim to have taken in the school just on Monday.

While the rest of the campus is still open for business, the cafeteria is closed for the rest of the week. The kitchen has been cleaned. Food has been removed, said Hegarty,to try and starve-out the vexing vermin.

"I mean, it's one thing to have rats crawling around on the floor and stuff like that. You're not gonna lick the floor. You are gonna eat the food," said 10th grader Christian Lyons.

In the meantime, students are being served box lunches, prepared at other nearby schools.

Also,parents who were alerted to the pest problem late last week are being allowed to bring their kids lunch from the outside.

"That's crazy. It was ridiculous. I was ashamed. Embarrassed," said Shanyna Cionnoly, a junior.

It was a sentiment shared by other students as well.

"You don't expect that to happen at a school. You expect for them to be giving you the best they can," said senior Levi Rypkema. "And then we find out there's like, rats inside."

School officials say logistically they're still able to feed the kids on campus, because the seating area isin a separate part of the building from the kitchen itself.

There's also no school Friday, giving them extra time to work on the problem.

They hope to have the problem solved in the next few days and have the cafeteria back to normal by next week.